The recent trend for journals to require open access to primary data included in publications
has been embraced by many biologists, but has caused apprehension amongst researchers …

Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data
underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and …

Many ecology and evolution journals have recently adopted policies requiring that data from
their papers be publicly archived. I present suggestions on how data generators, data re …

Many leading journals in ecology and evolution now mandate open data upon publication.
Yet, there is very little oversight to ensure the completeness and reusability of archived …

Science depends on good data. Data are central to our understanding of the natural world,
yet most data in ecology and evolution are lost to science—except perhaps in summary form …

In the spring of 2010, Evolution joined with other key journals in evolution and ecology to
adopt a formal policy requiring that data used in articles published in the journal be …

Data papers, such as those published by Ecological Research, encourage the retrieval and
archiving of valuable unpublished, undigitized ecological observational data. However …

The rapid advancement of fields such as molecular biology, genomics and molecular
evolution is due, in large part, to pervasive data sharing. Ecology, evolution (other than …

Considerable evidence suggests that in many disciplines, large portions (up to 50% or
more) of published conclusions may be unreliable (eg, Open Science Collaboration 2015; …

Genetic data are being generated at unprecedented rates. Policies of many journals,
institutions and funding bodies aim to ensure that these data are publicly archived so that …